By Learning English, Clauses

Thank you, Mr. M and Marius. Can anyone shed some light on what Roger Woodham is saying here to a question about a third conditional in BBC LEARNING ENGLISH? Now, Elena, as well as talking about things that didn't happen, we also use the third conditional to talk about things that did...

well ,I think the When-clause is within the scope of that-clause.as for reasons , I can't find a better one, just by felling. However, Learning English sometimes needn't know the stucture and meaning of sentences very exactly. Some sentences in all the language can have two or more...

Will someone please check my homework. If I am doing it wrong will you please correct me and tell me what I am doing wrong before my quiz tomorrow. Ex 1 Classifying Sentence according to structure Underline each subordinate clause in the paragraph below. On the line before each sentence...

Anonymous wrote: Hello! I've got a question about a word usage. Hope someboy to help me. There would be a big tree near the pond. ----1 This is the beginning of a conditional sentence, so an if-clause is necessary. A grammar test book says that the above sentence is wrong. It should...

Yoong Liat wrote: 1. She walks as though she is drunk. 2. She walks as though she was drunk. 3. She walks as though she were drunk. What is the difference between the three sentences? I believe #2 and #3 have the same meaning. This website may be helpful in answering your...

Thank you to all those who have posted their suggestions to my little imagination game. Some have taken it very seriously thinking they would have to relearn English after the 'changes'. This was meant to be just a game, not for those wo take everything seriously, and of course in this game...

Hi Pinenut, Thanks for the response. I seem to have given you the impression that grammar is not important to me. That certainly was not my intention. My interest in grammar is why I participate in this forum and try to help people. I do the best I can to clarify things rather than to spread...

Milky wrote: Bamtori wrote: "Usually when you have a boob job, you get these two big blobs in the middle of nowhere,..." Teachers, After all this time of learning English, I'm still having trouble with when to use "have" and not "get" and vice versa. Please help~ In the first clause,...

Bamtori wrote: "Usually when you have a boob job, you get these two big blobs in the middle of nowhere,..." Teachers, After all this time of learning English, I'm still having trouble with when to use "have" and not "get" and vice versa. Please help~ In the first clause, you can use...

If one will scoff the study of the language, let's them scoff. It's very interesting to listen them to scoff, we will learn a lot of thing. I will share with you a truth. In my own language, people told me I was a grammarian, but I coudan't use these rules in speech more fluently than my...